Viktor
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- Mar 19, 2019
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Harrison's life hasn't been easy.
He knows others have faced similar battles, and he hopes to inspire them by being involved with the Vikings "Getting Open" series.
It's encouraging to him to see the stigma around mental illness slowly breaking down, although there is plenty of room to go.
"People are willing to talk about it more … who they are and why they are," Harrison said. "But I feel like there's a stigma because when people hear 'mental health,' they tend to think of somebody being crazy. Or that they have anxiety and depression and they want to kill themselves."
For many, it could be one – or all three – of the latter. But Harrison also wants to communicate that everybody's story is different. Everyone's experience is different. And at the end of the day, it's about seeking to understand one another and the willingness to walk alongside them.
"People feel feeble-minded and weak if they feel, or if they have empathy toward something," Harrison said. "Like I said earlier, at a young age we're not taught how to deal with things. We're told how to suppress them, that really no one cares.
"But you have to find the ones who really do," he added.